Cue-rest



(No Model.)

W. D. ORONIN.

CUE REST.

No. 570,459. Patented Nov. 3, 1896.

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VILLIAIWI D. ORONIN, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNOR TO GEORGEL. HORN, OF SAME PLACE, AND MAX SENGER AND CHARLES A. BAAKE, OF ATLANTICCITY, NEWV JERSEY.

CUE-REST.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 570,459, dated November3, 1896.

Application filed February 10, 1896. fierial No. 578,657. (No model.)

To all whom, it may concern.-

Be it known that I, WILLIAM D. CRONIN, a citizen of the United States,residing at Phila delphia, in the county of Philadelphia and State ofPennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements inCue-Rests, of which the following is a specification, reference beinghad therein to the accompanying drawings.

The object of my invention is to provide a device to be attached to thehand to serve as a cue-guide in playing billiards, pool, and similargames. I

In many cases unskilled persons find it difficult to form a suitablerest and guide for the cue, and thepresent device is intended to supplythis rest and form a guide which will at all times remain in positionand will exert exactly the same friction on the one, so that the playermay regulate his stroke in accordance with the play to be made.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective View of acue-rest constructed in accordance with my invention. Fig. 2 is anelevation of the same; and Fig. 3 is a sectional plan view on the line 33, Fig. 2.

Referring to the drawings, A represents the cue-rest, having two arms act at substantially right angles to each other. The

arm a, has an opening I) for the passage of the thumb of the left hand,and the arm a has an opening I) for the passage of the forefinger.

In fact these two arms are substantially thumb and finger rings shapedto 0011- form to that portion of the hand to which they are fitted andjoined together to form a support for the cue-guide.

Secured to the upper portion of the arm a is a bracket 0, preferablyswiveled so that it may turn freely, or it may be secured to or formedintegral with the arms, if desired. This bracket carries a roller 0,running on pins d, adapted to openings in the side arms of the bracket.The one rests on this roller, and as the latter turns freely there islittle or no friction on the cue, so that the stroke may be made withthe greatest freedom. The base of the arms is fiat, so that a fiat levelsurface is formed which rests directly on the table, the hand being heldopen, as indicated by dotted lines in Fig. 1.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secureby Letters Patent, is

The combination of the integral thumb and forefinger rings shaped toconform to the contour of the hand, a fiat base on said rings, a bracket0 swiveled on top of said rings, and a cue-holding roller 0, carried bythe side arms of said bracket, substantially as specified.

I testimony whereof I affix my signature in the presence of twoWitnesses.

WILLIAM D. CRONIN.

\Vitnesses:

ALEX. D. LAUER, WALTER W. OALMORE.

